Fictional places offer a way for creators to talk about a location without having to explicitly mention it. Though never mentioned explicitly, one could deduce he was writing about Singapore, a place that he visited several times during his seafaring career. But, have you wondered why Singapore is such a fascinating place to depict, not just for local but international authors?Ī hundred years ago, Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad set some of his famed short stories in an unnamed Asian port city. Singapore has been depicted as thinly disguised versions of itself in Western fiction as Madripoor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Manticura in Nuraliah Norasid’s The Gatekeeper.
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